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Wu-Tang Clan coming at ya. News from inside the Venn Diagram of rap and futurism: Vibe reports that this year's edition of the touring hip-hop festival Rock the Bells will feature "original virtual performances" from both Eazy-E (with Bone Thugs-n-Harmony) and Ol' Dirty Bastard (with the Wu-Tang Clan). Both, obviously, have been dead for years. Rather...

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(Photo: Huffington Post) The deposed queen of daytime is, apparently, still issuing annual proclamations of her favorite things–even without a studio full of suburban moms moved to speak in tongues after receiving the good word. Microsoft better hope Oprah’s imprimatur is still enough to move items off the shelf because...

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Wealthfront is continuing its mission to upend the greedy, confusing, and cloistered world of financial management by using technology and courting the Venn diagram of people who like technology and suddenly have lots of money: Recent IPOs of Silicon Valley. We’ve written before about Wealthfront’s Online Investment Advisor aimed at...

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Entrepreneurs, meet Thomas Pynchon. Earlier today, Publishers Marketplace editor Sarah Weinman broke the news that Pynchon, who literary gadfly Harold Bloom called one of the four best American writers alive, will take on Silicon Alley in his next book. “The Bleeding Edge,” Pynchon’s first novel since 2009′s “Inherent Vice,” is set...

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If you were to draw a Venn diagram including fans of They Might Be Giants and those of interactive fiction ("text adventures" to the layperson), chances are there would be some significant overlap. From that overlap springs Apollo 18+20: The IF Tribute Album, which is in fact not an...

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Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have our new reviews editor, Sarah Silbert. I'm not your textbook-case geek. On that authoritative dork-geek-nerd venn...

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Short Version As we approach crunch time, I’ve decided to focus on cool gifts that you can still get for those folks who are hardest to buy for. To that end, here’s something decidedly cool and/or odd: it’s a handmade watch whose face is a smashed Nespresso pod. At about...

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New York startup Makeably as all the trappings of a media darling — it operates in center of a Venn Diagram with intersecting circles labeled “maker movement,” “ex-Googler,” “ecommerce 2.0″ and “personalization.” We tech bloggers tend to have pretty predictable taste; all those things combined make for a tantalizing subject....

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Google has had a brainstorm, and now plans to use the collaborative and sharing features of Google Drive as bait -- essentially to lure third-party apps into the Google fold. In a blog post, Google software engineer Brian Caims outlined how developers can integrate Google Drive features into their apps...

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A little bit of good news for users who fall in the overlapping area of the AT&T U-verse / Starz Venn diagram -- those who subscribe to both services will get access to Starz Play, Encore Play and the newly debuted Movieplex Play. The three services are available as...

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Not pictured: Fitbit and Withings scale. (via @Naveen) Don't call it a startup--at least not yet--but Foursquare cofounder Naveen Selvadurai dropped some hints about an upcoming personal project at an event at Union Square Monday evening, as Erick Schonfeld revealed on Twitter. The de-Crunched tech blogger was at the VC...

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As far as entrepreneurs go, Adam Ludwin is nothing if not a self-aware one. His own description of his new app, Albumatic, began as only a pitch from a seasoned VC-turned-entrepreneur could. “It’s a photo sharing app.” he said, rolling his eyes and nodding his head dismissively. “Yeah, yeah, I...

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Mr. Page (Photo: Wikimedia) Today, In the Plex author Steven Levy has an interview with his favorite subject headlined, “Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter.” Well, naturally they matter a lot, we thought. Doing shots on the moon can get very complicated what with the no gravity and...

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Last year, I wrote an article for VentureBeat about how mobile phones and near field communication (NFC) technology could enhance the payments experience. I included a couple of important caveats: NFC technology, in and of itself, is not compelling enough to change consumer behavior away from using credit cards and...

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Plenty has been written about the pros and cons of employees engaging in social media at work, officially or unofficially. Plenty of people have gained and lost jobs through the judicious or indiscrete usage of social media and new media, but by and large, most corporations haven’t truly accepted full...

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Nara Logics has spent the better part of three years building the artificial intelligence necessary to deliver personally relevant search results. The company believes that it is no longer good enough to deliver the most universally relevant results to a given search query, but rather that it’s necessary to...

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You've seen it on Mad Men: The agency's creative staff whiles away the noon hour with a liquid lunch of Old Fashioneds, then pops back into the office and whips off a whimsical Lucky Strike ad campaign that gets the masses chomping at the bit for tobacco sticks.But does this...

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It's a very weird venn diagram that has early adopters, lazy millionaires and a trio of our European editors at the heart of it, but that's where we find this week's show. Steve talks about the new cameras and displays that's been shown off at NAB, Mat dreams up...

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Do you live in the Venn diagram between data nerds, design nerds and health nerds? Then I’m about to tell you about your new favorite site. Notch is a project that takes all your Fitbit data and turns it into a very cool looking infographic all about what you did...

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The last few weeks have been awash in nerds and geeks. ChipChick published a guide to dating a geek girl, while CNN decried “wannabe models” pretending to be nerds. Before that came the shootings in Aurora, where media described killer James Holmes as a science-loving geek or a “dark...

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Mobile shopping company miBuys conducted a survey of 1,600 women on mobile phones and found that the overwhelming majority of them were open to more mobile marketing and mobile shopping.These respondents love using the mobile web overall, this study shows; 94% said they even use their phones to surf...

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Someone has created a Venn Diagram giving us a visual representation of the many different haircuts and head-wear actor Denzel Washington employs in his movies. I’m not sure who created this image. I found it on Paul Scheer’s blog, where he commented “Finally someone breaks it down”. Scheer discovered...

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You’d think there would be more overlap between Square and Starbucks on the Venn diagram of company cultures. Technology enthusiasts thrive on caffeine, and Starbucks offers free Wi-Fi for harried startup-ers. Both deal in life’s constants: cash and coffee. Starbucks has perfected the use of preloaded cards to pay for...

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Data visualization is cool. It's also becoming ever more useful, as the vibrant online community of data visualizers (programmers, designers, artists, and statisticians — sometimes all in one person) grows and the tools to execute their visions improve. Jeff Clark is part of this community. He, like many data visualization...

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Paul Graham is the cofounder of Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's most influential early stage startup investing firm. Graham is a Professor X figure to a host of Silicon Valley engineers (who, if you think about it, are a type of wonderful mutant.) Anyway, Graham has written a blog post about...